How do I exclude a folder in compress-archive

Question

Can I somehow exclude a folder when I compress an archive like this?

$compress = Compress-Archive $DestinationPath $DestinationPath\\ARCHIVE\\archiv-$DateTime.zi         


        

Answer 1

Get all the files you want to compress, excluding the files and folders you don't want compressed and then pass that to the cmdlet

# target path
$path = "C:\temp"
# construct archive path
$DateTime = (Get-Date -Format "yyyyMMddHHmmss")
$destination = Join-Path $path "ARCHIVE\archive-$DateTime.zip"
# exclusion rules. Can use wild cards (*)
$exclude = @("_*.config","ARCHIVE","*.zip")
# get files to compress using exclusion filer
$files = Get-ChildItem -Path $path -Exclude $exclude
# compress
Compress-Archive -Path $files -DestinationPath $destination -CompressionLevel Fastest